Carpet-lining.



PATENTED NOV.' 17,1903.

J. MGGWIN.

CARPET lLINING. APPLICATION FILED nm. 16, 1902.

'N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES atented November 17, i903;

PATENT EEICE.

y JAIvIEs' IvIoGvvIN, OE WASHINGTON, DISTRICT or COLUMBIA, AssIGNoE OE 'ONE-TENTH rro GEORGE H. OHANDLEE, or CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND,

CARPET*- sPEcIEIcATIoN forming part of Letters ramene Ne. 744,091, dated Nvember '17,' 190e.

Application filed December 16, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES MCGWIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washf ington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Linings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact. description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the'art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to door-coverings interposed between the carpet and the floor-boards and commonly known as carpet-lining.

It is the object of the invention to provide such improvements in carpet-linings as will render them more durable than heretofore,

enable them to be dusted or cleaned, and to otherwise enhance their serviceability.

To these ends the invention consists of a carpet-lining composed of a lap of cotton or similar substance having a sheet of burlap on its opposite sides secured thereto by lines or rows of stitches,all as is hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specicatin, the same letters referring to the same parts or features, as the case may be,wherever they occur,

Of the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of apiece or section of a length of myimproved carpet-lining with a switch or stick as having been caused to just strike the same in the process of cleaning or dusting it. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of what is shown in Fig. l.

In the drawings, c designates a lap of cotton, or it may be any substance used to form the body of a carpet-lining.

b h designate sheets of burlap or similar coarse or loosely-Woven fabric suited to the accomplishment of the functions hereinafter ascribed to burlap which are arranged on the opposite sides of the lap of cotton and secured thereto by loose lines of stitches c at as close or Wide intervals as may be desirable.

The distinguishing characteristics of my improved carpet-lining are the sheets of burlap on each side of the body of the lining, which give strength to the completed article,

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enable it to be stretched to a degree that is often desirable, provide for its thorough renovation or dusting when necessary, and keep the surface even and intact in usage under the circumstances mentioned.

o7, designates a switch or stick which may be supposed to have just been struck upon the improved lining, showing how when this is done the dust may be caused to iiy from 6o each side, thus cleaning or dusting it, a thing that cannot be accomplished where paper is arranged on oppositesides of the body or lap of the lining or where, if it should be so proposed, the surface on one side should be paper and the other coarse open-woven fabric.

The burlap facings are strong and durable and yet light in weight and of relatively low cost. 7o

I have found from practical experience that while the first costof my improved carpetlining is greater than is that of the lining commonly used in which paper is. employed on both sides of the bodyv or cotton lap or 7 5 than where paper might be used on one side and a sheetrof burlap on the other my improvementY finds favor in the market and with the public solely because of the employment of a sheet of burlap on both sides of the 8o lap of cotton, whereby the advantages recited herein are secured. In the use of ordinary'carpet-lining the paper covering is not only very liable to become torn, but with the tearing the cotton lap is likely to be dug up or displaced, and When this is done the piece is rendered defective, since it can scarcely be smoothed down to serve as before. Besides this no carpet-lining known to me is capable, as is mine, of being stretched 9o so as to be extended or drawn absolutely tight or tense and so as to render it smooth and secure exact fitting on theY floor.

By my improvements the lining can be thoroughly cleansed or renovated by beating or other process to which the cleaning of the carpet itself is commonly subjected without breaking .or tearing the surfaces, which is a matter of great importance.

Oarpetlinings as commonly made are frelos quently unserviceable for a second usagethat is, after a carpet has been taken up to be cleansed or for other reasons and its relaying is undertaken-since after one usage and with ordinaryhandling the paper is liable to become torn, rendering the surface uneven, and the body or lap of cotton is frequently displaced and other harmful things take place. With my invention the lining can be stretched With out interfering 'with the intact condition of the surfaces. This is important, since slight stretching of the lining is desirable to secure smoothness and nice itting. It is therefore repeated that it is the inherent meritorious qualities of my improvements and the improved functions of which they are 

